I Love How The Lebanese Government Is "Responsible"

[K8-EEE]

For everything Hezbollah does, but BushCo is not responsible for anything -- not the failed war, Abu Graib, Gitmo, NOTHING it's all "we had no way of knowing."

So the supposedly most powerful nation has no responsiblility, a fledgling democracy with no real power has ALL the responsiblity to contain everything in its borders. If it's too weak to do so, it will be bombed to be weaker.

WHAT KIND OF SENSE DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE???

[SeattleGirl]

1. A lot of sense, as long as you are looking through Bush-colored glasses

Otherwise, it makes not a lick of sense.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. It's one of the freeper talking points

that have been going around.

Of course it's illogical but when did that ever make a difference?

[whistle]

3. Well that's the price of free speech in a democracy even liars

...get to be heard, over and over and over again, ad Nazism!

[burythehatchet]

4. Imagine

the civilized world's reaction to a muslim blowing up a UN facility and killing 4.

[CuteNFuzzy]

9. exactly

[Redstone]

5. And the worst part is, our government PROMISED to help the Lebanese

government when the Syrians went home.

And did we?

Don't be silly. We could have prevented this war, but you know, bushyboy and them are only interested in starting wars.

You think Hezbollah would have had all those bunkers & rockets in southern Lebanon if we had put 30,000 US troops in there?

Redstone

[TomInTib]

6. That was just to fade the heat on the Hariri thing.

We had our fingers crossed.

I still think Mossad was behind the Hariri bombing. That was the single most awe-inspiring assassination, ever. Typical Mossad overkill.

This is not an anti-Israeli post. I have been around some serious carnage, but that one was jaw-dropping. Blew some of those up-armored Mercedes into the effing sea, over a hundred yards away..

[Redstone]

8. You could indeed be right. After all, those are the people who

waxed a few people this way:

(Terrorist pickus up cell phone): "Hello?"

(From speaker of cell phone): "Israel Calling!"

(Heard a block away): KA-BOOM!

Clever SOBs, they are. I'd want them on MY side in a bar fight.

Redstone

[TomInTib]

11. "I'd want them on MY side in a bar fight."

You fucking got that right.

[oberliner]

10. This point is being lost in this

The US should have been working with Lebanon after the "Cedar Revolution" to assist them and the international community in getting Hezbollah to disarm and disband.

This administration did nothing.

Lots of talk. Zero action. That's the way this administration works.

Platitudes, nothing more.

[Erika]

7. great post. Why the Lebanese people are being punished

for democratically electing 23% Hezbollah in their government is beyond me. Don't they have that right or is W now going to accept other governments only if they meet with His approval?

Sounds like King George of England.

[wellst0nev0ter]

14. Hell, Hezbollah Has Only 17 Out Of 128 Seats

and Shiites are only allowed 27 seats total in the parliament, despite their being almost half of Lebanon's population.

But still, it's easier to blame a fledgling democracy for all this shit.

[Touchdown]

12. Look at Lebanon's mini-skirt. They were asking for it!

... it's not that much of a stretch to link the two. The Repigs only have 4 arguments in their arsenal. They just interchange the nouns.

[wellst0nev0ter]

13. If Lebanon Fights Hezbollah, There Would Be Renewed Civil War

and, as we know, neocon fuckwits thrive on chaos. Heads we win, tails you lose.

[tyedyeto]

15. In the same vein as Saddam=Al-Queda?

We on the left know there were no ties in the Iraq situation back in 2001 but are those ties there when talking about Lebanon/Hezbollah?

I'm not any sort of 'expert' of this latest Mid-East crisis, but it seems like the Lebonnese gov't has condonned Hezbollah by doing nothing to contain or control them.

This is not to say that one country in this latest crisis is right or wrong, just that if a country 'supports' a terrorist org by doing nothing, is it right or wrong to condemn them?

In the same analogy, the US supports terrorist orgs when it suits their purpose. Examples: abotion clinics, white supremacy groups, most neo-con backed Christian groups.